Sentence examples for retinal from inspiring English sources

When Bhya was 12 she suffered a trauma and lost her sight over three days, due to retinal detachment.

An international team of scientists, led by a group at the University of Pennsylvania, used a genetically engineered virus to introduce the correct version of a gene called RPE65 into six people suffering from a retinal disease known as Leber's congenital amaurosis.

"The blind community have been waiting for this for decades," says Lyndon da Cruz, a consultant retinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, who has already implanted seven of the devices as part of the trials.

Rather than zapping the retinal neurons electrically, the idea is to stimulate them chemically, using tiny squirts of the chemical neurotransmitters that are normally produced by healthy photoreceptors.

Rather, he believes that in the foreseeable future these prostheses are going to be special purpose, mostly peripheral devices such as the retinal prostheses being developed at Stanford University, or the "bionic eye" at the University of Southern California.

In vertebrates this protein is found in retinal cells, where it transduces the energy of light into a nerve signal to the brain.

Dr Schwartz and his team coaxed embryonic stem cells to become retinal pigment epithelium tissue which supports the rod and cone cells that actually respond to light then injected 50,000 of them into one eye of each patient, with the hope that they would bolster the natural supply of these cells.The result was a qualified success.

He rejected "retinal" art art addressed exclusively to the eye in favour of what he called "art at the service of the mind".

A defective version of a gene called RPE65 means that, in this condition, retinal cells are starved of vitamin A, which also causes blindness.

When hit by infra-red light, the diodes generate an electric current and, via the electrodes, stimulate nerve cells in the retinal tissue in the way that a natural photoreceptor would.

John Wyatt and Joseph Rizzo, co-directors of the Harvard/MIT retinal implant project, have managed to help a patient see a line of four dots.Hardly encouraging.